On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 11:50 -0400, Eric Morey wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:29 -0400, Eric Morey wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've routinely experienced in recent weeks that the evolution process on > > > my system is using more than 600 MiB of RAM according to the system > > > monitor application in Ubuntu. Why is this so? Is this normal for others > > > using evolution? > > > > That would depend on what you're measuring. If it's 600MB exclusively in > > Evo, it sounds high. If it includes shared libraries from Gnome, not so > > much. > How can I find out? I'm just looking at the System Monitor GUI in Ubuntu > and sorting by Memory.
"ps -ely|less" and look for the RSS column. That's the Resident Set Size, i.e. the amount of physical memory actually being used (in kb). Note that some of that will also belong to shared libraries so it's not an exact measure, but it should give a rough idea. You can also do "sudo cat /proc/<PID>/status", where <PID> is the process id of evolution (use ps to discover it). That will give a more detailed view of the memory layout. See "man proc" for more info. > > Do you see the memory usage growing significantly over time? > > > Yes. It seems to start out using ~24MB the of the course of 24 to 48 > hrs, it increases to over 600. If you mean 24MB after loading the active mail accounts, that could be a memory leak, which would indicate a bug. I'm not an Evo devel so you'd need to report it Bugzilla to get better feedback. > > I have Evo running constantly on its own desktop and currently it uses > > about 270MB resident memory. > > > That seems like a lot to me, but then again I honestly don't know what > evolution is doing beyond retrieving my email and storing contact > information. It's all relative. At one time in the past 270MB would have been a huge amount of memory. Now I get Firefox processes using more than that. Right now I have a Chrome browser using over 280MB and Chrome is regarded as fast and lightweight :-) I also have 4GB RAM on my system (and it's 64-bit, which also affects memory usage). The real question is whether it grows inexorably over time. > > > > > I'm not sure how to diagnose this issue. I found a mailing list thread > > > thread from 2002 in a search for "evolution email memory" online. [1] It > > > seemed to be related to my experience. I also subscribe to a number of > > > mailing lists via IMAP and sort each list to its own folder. I use > > > fastmail.fm for my mail server and use their email filtering to sort > > > mail before I access it locally through evolution. There was some > > > discussion on the thread about vfolders that I did not understand. What > > > is a vFolder? I couldn't tell you if I was using one or not. > > > > A vFolder is a search folder, i.e. a view of one of more other folders > > defined by a search expression (similar to a filter). It's not physical > > -- you won't see it on your IMAP server for example -- but it's an > > important part of Evo since both Trash and Junk are vFolders, not to > > mention any you define yourself. > > I don't use the trash or junk folders. I expunge deleted mail almost > immediately. And I use the Fastmail.fm's spam filtering that moves > flagged mail to a "spam" IMAP folder. Is there a way to remove these > vfolders? You actually do use Trash even if you don't think you do. It's used every time you move a message from one (real) folder to another (e.g. using filters). Since IMAP has no "move" operation, this is done by copying and deleting, and deletion uses Trash. Note that this means you should expunge regularly after doing moves, if you want to recover space. In fact even if you expunge immediately, the message will still be in Trash even if only transiently. You can't avoid using Trash. You might be able to delete Junk if you turn off Junk controls completely, I don't know. However I doubt that this is the source of your problem. > I've deleted a search folder that I don't remember making but I'm not > able to delete an "Unmatched" search folder that I never really noticed > before. How can I delete it? It's built-in. I don't know that you can delete it. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
